Paramount and Artcraft Press Books (1918)

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mm ♦ Scarpia is so enraged that he orders Mario sent to prison in Angelotti 's place, Tosca pleads for him, but unavailingly, and soon she herself is locked up by Scarpia lest she appeal to the Queen for help. Apparently relenting, Scarpia later calls Tosca before him and after some parleying, bluntly informs her that she herself is the price of her lover’s freedom, Tosca refuses at first, but when Scarpia declares that unless she consents, Mario shall die instantly, she consents. Scarpia then promises to order the firing squad which is to execute his sentence upon Angelotti to place blank cartridges in their guns. He pretends to issue this order, and goes on to tell Tosca that Mario has only to pretend to fall and remain until nightfall when Tosca herself can come to carry him away. When Scarpia’ s back is turned, Tosca, seizing a knife from the supper table which has been set for them, plunges it into Scarpia’ s back. He is killed at once, and stopping only to place a few candles around him, Tosca hastens away to the cell of her lover, telling him how she has arranged to save him. Mario forgives her the betrayal of Angelotti and goes unresistingly with the soldiers when they come to lead him to his death. But Scarpia had deceived Tosca. He had not given the order to the firing squad and when Tosca rushes to Mario, whom she expects to smile covertly at her, she is stunned to find that he is really dead. Mad with grief, Tosca mounts the parapet of the castle and screams to the soldiers that Scarpia is dead! That she has murdered him. When they find that this is actually true, a detachment of them try to capture her, but, defying them, she leaps to her death on the stones below. 19